Skylake will go into tablets, laptops and desktops, including some that are on track to reach the market in the second half this year.

Devices based on Skylake could incorporate a number of interesting features, including wireless charging and, in some mobile devices, Thunderbolt 3.0 ports. These will be able transfer data at 40Gbps (bits per second), close to twice the transfer speed of Thunderbolt 2.

Skylake will succeed the current architecture code-named Broadwell. At last year’s Computex Intel showed a 7.2-mm tablet based on a Broadwell-based Core M chip, so the Skylake tablet was a bit thicker.

Intel wants to bring Skylake to market as it wants to move on quickly from the chips code-named Broadwell, which were delayed due to manufacturing problems. Intel decided not to delay Skylake, so Broadwell chips are expected to have a shorter-than-usual life in the market; Intel usually upgrades chips at yearly intervals.